How to Install macOS Sierra 10.12 on VirtualBox?

In our previous post we have shown you that how to install macOS Sierra 10.12 on VMware and now in this article, I’m going to show you that how to install macOS Sierra 10.12 on VirtualBox. Apple has announced the next version of its Mac operating system: Sierra. Of course, the real change is that, after fifteen years, Apple has finally ditched the “OS X” moniker. All things old are new again, and the new operating system will only call “macOS.” We don’t yet know if Sierra carries a “10.12” version number, but with developers getting their hands on the OS later today, we should soon have that question answered.

Apple’s Craig Federighi ran through a whole bunch of new features to be included in the revised operating system. He started by mentioning Continuity and Auto-Unlock, which now combine to let you seamlessly unlock a desktop or laptop Mac merely by bringing your Apple Watch close, using what Federighi described as “time-of-flight networking” to detect the watch’s proximity. It was unclear from the presentation whether or not this feature is an Apple Watch exclusive; Federighi did not explicitly say that Auto-Unlock would work with iOS devices.

Step #1. Extract macOS Sierra Image File

Once you downloaded the macOS Sierra image file then, you must extract it via WinRAR or 7zip. To extract the file, simply right-click on file then choose “Extract Here.” It’ll take some minutes to extract so wait for a moment.

Extract macOS Sierra VM File

Step #2. Install VirtualBox on Your PC

Download VirtualBox from the link above. Once you have downloaded the VirtualBox, then Install it on your Windows PC. To install VirtualBox, just click on the setup then hit “Next” and “Next.” Finally, click “Finished.”

Step #3. Create New Virtual Machine

#1. Now, you have to create a new Virtual Machine. Open the VirtualBox then tap on “New” at the upper left-hand side and name the Virtual Machine “macOS Sierra” then hit the “Next” button.

Name and choose the Version

#2. Now, you’ll be prompted to select memory size for VM. Choose at least 4 GB of RAM space for the Virtual Machine.

Choose Memory Size

#3. If you wish, you can add a virtual hard disk to the new machine. You can either create a new hard drive file or select one from the last or another location using the folder icon. Here, you should choose the last option “Use an existing virtual hard disk file“. Select the file and click “Create“.

Select Hard Disk type

Step #4. Edit the New Virtual Machine

#1. Open the VirtualBox then tap on “Settings“. In the “General Tab“, put everything to the default. Go to the next option “System“. You will see three main tabs. Click on the first tab “Motherboard“. Uncheck “Floppy” drive and set the chipset to “ICH9“.

Step #5. Add VirtualBox Code to the CMD

#1. Before adding the code you’ve to edit the code first. Open the VirtualBox code then replace the “Virtual Machine Name”. Get help from the screenshot down below.

Replace the Code

#2. Now, run CMD as administrator. Open VBox code and Add the code to the CMD one by one.

Copy and Paste the VirtualBox Code

Step #6. Play the Virtual Machine

#1. In this step, you have to open VirtualBox then “Start” or run the macOS Sierra VM.

Launch the Virtual Machine

#2. After running the macOS Sierra VM, you will see some white code with a black screen. You’re not going to do anything in this step. Just wait for a moment and macOS Sierra welcome page will appear.

Installing macOS Sierra on VirtualBox

Step #7. Perform a Clean Installation of macOS Sierra

Now while installing macOS Sierra or El Capitan on VMware or VirtualBox then we don’t need to install that on separate disk because while editing the VM we choose the virtual disk type SATA, and this is the one and only way for now to install macOS Sierra or El Capitan on VMware or VirtualBox. So that’s why now in the very next step we have to perform a clean installation and to set up macOS Sierra.

#1. Choose your Country and click on Continue.

Choose Language

#2. Pick a keyboard Layout and click on Continue.

Choose Keyboard Layout

#3. Now select your method to transfer information to this Mac and click on Continue.

Transfer Information to this Mac

#4.Enable location services and click on Continue.

Enable Location Services

#5. In this step, you have to Sign in with your Apple ID. If you have one, then create a free Apple ID, by the article, how to create an Apple ID on iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. If you don’t want to sign in with Apple ID or don’t want to create Apple ID, then Choose Don’t Sign in and Click on Continue.

Sign in with your Apple ID

#6. Agree tothe Terms and Conditions.

Terms and Conditions

#7. Fill out the Full name, Account name, Password, Hint and check the box of Set time zone based on Current location. Then finally click on Continue to create your user account for macOS Sierra, which will be installed.

Create a Computer Account

#8. Select the options for Diagnostics & Usage and click on Continue.

Diagnostics and Usage

#9. Wait a little while to Setting Up Your Mac. Then it will run on the desktop of macOS Sierra.

Setting up macOS Sierra

Important: For any kinds of error while installing Mac OS X El Capitan and macOS Sierra visit this article.

Watch the full video tutorial

Conclusion

After performing a clean installation and Setting up your macOS Sierra then you should see your final result that, macOS Sierra has successfully installed on VirtualBox. In this post, That was all about, how to install macOS Sierra 10.12 on VirtualBox and I have covered;

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About The Author

Mukhtar Jafari is a new blog writer and CEO of wikigain.com. He is working on WikiGain Website and as well as Amozish.net. Newly I have joined Blogging, Networking which I know MCITP, MCSA CCNA. And I know Microsoft Office 2013 and 2016 as well.

Twilighttony

Would you be able to help me, because I am trying to install mac os on my other ssd and this simply isn’t working. I followed your steps to the T. closing virtualbox in order to put the commands in, setting everything the way it was supposed to as well. I am at a loss

Twilighttony

Can you take a short video of what you’ve done? upload on youtube or any other place. Let me see what you’ve done.

January 9, 2017

Leo Allesch

I followed step 5 and closed VirtualBox before entering the commands and I keep on getting the same error. The error says that it can’t find that registered virtual machine. I double checked the name and it is correct.

stakido

Nate

I keep getting the guru message, I have tried 5 versions of the os 10 different ways. I’m on Zorin OS, I can run all windows versions with VB also I tried several Linux flavors all working fine. just seems to be an issue when I try a Mac OS. Even a retail ISO install throws an error.

Edo

If you have Mac Operating system so just go to beta.apple.com then download macOS Sierra. One day ago it’s published as public. Now, you can download it. If you don’t have MacBook or iMac. For now download the developer preview then Install on VirtualBox. The link is mentioned inside the post.

July 9, 2016

Edo

Hello,

I have followed all steps and now I am stacked with DSMOS has arrived or waiting for DSMOS. What should I do? Thanks Edo

J.P.M.I

Leo

Hello Mam,I have a problem regarding in opening a mac os in virtual machine.It always shows the Guru meditation that tells there was an critical error.Ive been following your steps in your website especially in putting a virtual code in cmd but it keeps showing it Guru meditation.What do you think is the problem mam? For me is my RAM is only have 4GB maximize only.Please kindly help me mam regarding to this problem

PW

Hi Mukhtar, I have gotten several Mac VMs to work successfully before with VirtualBox, from Mountain Lion up through Yosemite. My Intel i7 system is Mac-compatible. The error above is generated by VirtualBox, which fails to boot my VM with that error message.

Hey! I was trying to download the Complete Zip file with IDM (Internet Download Manager) Since Its a fairly big file I can not download it in one session, IDM allows you to pause and resume downloads but when I try to resume this one… I get an error message saying that my session as expired…. Can someone please assist me.. Thanks!

Yes dear, try different times when you have the capability to resume the downloading files of macOS Sierra then keep downloading. Otherwise, don’t.

October 4, 2016

Aditya Patel

Hey, I dont know why but after following the same process I am having this thing where it says waiting for DSMOS… and then it repeats the process again and again. Here is the link where you can see my problem.

Mar

José M

Hello dear, Sorry can you explain in details and send your system information also.

October 10, 2016

lwlin

This is super helpful — I followed every step, and it worked great!

I’m running a Windows 7 host, and I’d like to get my mouse work smoothly in the guest macOS Sierra. But something went wrong as I tried to get VBoxGuestAddtions installed on the guest macOS Sierra, please see screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/asx7m43ohtli90w/_vbox_macos.png?dl=0 It’d be great if I could get some help. Thanks!

jamacoe

jamacoe

Got it all working, great manual, thank you. Easier than ever. To solve my problem, I switched off ‘Nested Paging’. Funny. My Yosemite installation used ‘Nested Paging’. Now what can I do to get a full screen resolution?

Georges

No dear, I am sorry but right now I can’t give any solution but I suggest you to try to install macOS Sierra on VMware if you’re unable to install it on VirtualBox. Usually, on VirtualBox it’s a little bit sticky also the App Store does not work on VirtualBox but on VMware it does.http://www.wikigain.com/install-macos-sierra-10-12-vmware/

October 17, 2016

getwell2

Hello, here I have a little problem with installation to begin 🙂 I followed step by step your tutorial. Unfortunately, this one does not work for me :’-( First : I have a laptop Asus Rog with a i5 6300 HQ, an Nvidia 960M and 8go DDR4. And when i try to install macOS, my virtualbox do that : https://youtu.be/CqibCdTbsgc (it’s an private youtube video). And he did the same loop again and again…

Hello dear, I am sorry but right now I can’t give any solution for this error. It’s the one it faced myself with my laptop and till now wasn’t able to figure it out. So I suggest you try once on VMware and it works or not. You can get help from this article for VMware:http://www.wikigain.com/install-macos-sierra-10-12-vmware/

October 18, 2016

Vlad

I followed the instructions and installed Sierra virtual machine with no problem. For my purposes i had to change the Network settings but other than that everything else works fine.

Pavel

Hi! I have absolutely the same error (“unexpected session: 100000 uid: -1…”). And get infinite reboot then with this error. Don’t know what to try.

November 7, 2016

Pavel

Update: manual closing of “VirtualBox Interface” process and #5 redo helped. For some reason this process was running even after closing VirtualBox. So now it’s working. Mukhtar, thanks for the work! But why it shows only 3mb video?

Paul

hi, ive followed this procedure 20+ times now to the letter and just get a quick flash of ‘Found HFS” and I cannot read the rest it is so fast, then a black screen that does nothing. ive tried all the above but still the same. ive got a 1tb hdd, e6700 cpu, 4gb ram and win 10. any thoughts?

Jo

Sorry for late reply Just follow step #5 thoroughly once again because you might have done any mistake.

October 29, 2016

Jo

additional log:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_85kRRhQVNeSzNkcXhuM05WV2c

October 28, 2016

Paul

vid mem is set to 128 and i have tried the vmdk from here but just wont run. i tried a few others as well but they do not run either. i can only select 2 x cpu as this is all my machine has. i’ve tried adding the smc.ver line and changing vrhw to 10. when i tried an iso i get cpu has been disabled ……

spent a lot of hours on this but getting no where. have used aqnd created lots of vm’s before but this one has got me….. help !

alessio

Hi all I was also stucked in the VM booting point, with the rebooting over rebooting error reported by some of us. Just to share my experience, to me it worked to close all VM and the program virtualbox and redo step 5, then open it again and run the VM

Hunter Hemingway

Please try to step #5. Keep in mind that before adding the code to the CMD, you must close the VirtualBox completely. If it did not work let us know Good luck!

November 3, 2016

Hunter Hemingway

Thank you! I definitely had a sticky note on my desk to remind me of that…

November 3, 2016

macOS Fan

With VMWare version is there a way to add multiple resolutions within the OS? Upon boot, my only option is 1024×768. If I go full screen from VMware, it changes to 1920×1080, but within macOS, I don’t have multiple resolutions to choose from.

Eric

First of all thank you very much for this guide! I am absolutly new to this so forgive me if I have ignorand questions. I get stuck at step 5 I understand I have to edit the VM -name . In the on-screen I can see a file being edited in notepad called “virtualbox code”. Maybe I just don’t get it but I can’t find any such file on my machine.

Jessica

Jose

Hello dear Jose, Sorry dear, I can’t tell that you can or can not but you can give a try it’s free. Also, it works on most of AMD but not at all.

November 8, 2016

Kelli

Gee whiz, and I thuoght this would be hard to find out.

November 13, 2016

Petter

Everything works fin until step 6. I get no errors during step 5. When I then start the vm in step 6 I just get a black screen.. Nothing happens.. My system is Lenovo W520 with Intel Core i7.. Any ideas ? Thanks !

Luccas

Luccas

No that’s not a big deal. Just repeat Step #5 once again. Because most of the people have this error when they add the code to the cmd correctly. The problem will be solved. Open cmd normally “Not as administrator”. copy and paste the VB code to cmd then open VirtualBox. Keep in mind that before adding code, you must exit VirtualBox and it should not be opened while adding the code to CMD. Also, don’t forget to set the video memory from Virtual machine settings to 128 MB.

November 12, 2016

Petter

Sorry Mukhtar, but I have now repeated step #5 multiple times.. I shut down VirtualBox, open cmd normally and enter er 6 lines. No errors. I then open VirtualBox again, check that video mem is set to 128MB, and start the vm.. Same result.. Just a black screen.. I’m running version 5.1.8

Losada

Hello I made a Vm and it works thanks to you. But I have a problem of his it is cut and the sound serious voice deformed and slowed down. He does not have a fix for it. You do not have a line of code that resolves the problem. Cordially

Jon

You should enable Virtualization Technology from your BIOS then Follow step by step guide Also use the updated patch tools.

November 21, 2016

Mindaugas

I’ve got this working on Ubuntu. It was crashing at first, but then I skipped two first lines from code.txt file(change directory and modifyvm) and all other worked like a charm. Thanks for a tutorial and files! 🙂

could someone help me out? It may be noted that I am trying to do this on another drive not the C: drive it is the M: drive the vbox is stored on this drive and so are all of the recommended download files. I also changed the command prompt code to M:\ instead of C:\

Jordi

Use the updated code from the article then try step #5 Keep in mind that exit VirtualBox then add the code to CMD. If you don not exit the VBox, it may not work correctly.

If this method did not work, let me know. Good luck! 😀

November 24, 2016

Me

Well I was gonna say that the VM is permanently rebooting without ever getting to the welcome screen and ask for an explication, but obviously this is the case for everyone… So my question: Did this work for anyone here ? Cuz it really looks like this is simply another non-working tutrial you can find on the internet

Installing macOS Sierra on Hackintosh PC is simple and easy in case you apply each step exactly. I suggest you repeat step #5. Before adding code to the CMD you must exit the VBox completely. If you don’t exit, it will not work. Also use the updated code for VirtualBox.https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-VXG64GOoM-ZWJmd0l3YVNERGs

Most of the time this error happens due to Virtualization Technology which is disabled from your BIOS. Make use that this option is enabled then try again.

One more thing I have to mention for you. In step #5 when you want to add the code to the CMD, you must exit the VBox. If you did not fix the problem let us know.

November 26, 2016

ToadFungoso

The same error. I unistalled virtual box, I downloaded and installed Virtual Box 5.1.10. I repeated all the steps but it says me again first a thing with “OS/2 acceleration etc.” and after “UEFI interactive shell v2.1 EDK II UEFI v2.40 (EDK II, 0x00010000) Mapping table BLK0: Alias(s): pciroot(0x0)/pci(0x1F,0x2)/sata(0x0,0x0,0x0) BLK1:Alias(s): pciroot(0x0)/pci(0x1F,0x2)/sata(0x1,0x0,0x0) Press ESC in 1 seconds to skip startup.nsh or any other key to continue. Shell>_”

November 26, 2016

luckyduck69

This no longer works as of 11/27/2016. The first issue you will run into is that the mouse will not be captured by the guest (MacOS) up on booting into first configuration menu. You can get around this by capturing your mouse directly in the VBox menu. The next problem you will run into is that the first time configuration menu will not allow you to login with your Apple account. It will give you a message stating that this machine is no longer authorized to do so.

alec alex

Works flawlessly. The “warning” message is merely that “this machine cannot create any more Apple ID’s”. Just ignore and continue. Can still log in with an existing Apple ID..Just go to the Apple website and create an ID.

December 18, 2016

kde

Step 5 #2 CMD YOU need to be the administrator. Otherwise you get an error message.

Spicy ITC

Worked for me! After two years of previous attempts at getting a Hackintosh to work on VirtualBox. As others have said, Step 5 should include the instruction to quit VirtualBox before running the commands. I didn’t the first time and the Hackintosh failed to boot properly. As an IT admin with twenty years of Windoze experience, it’s great to finally experiment and learn about Mac OS X without shelling big $$$ for hardware.

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Pierre

Particularly No. When you install macOS Sierra on VirtualBox, you can add the French Language in order to type something.

December 11, 2016

Noah

I have the Virtual Machine up and running perfectly, unfortunately, I seem unable to mount USB flash drives to the VM. I get the error (“Failed to create a proxy device for the USB device. (Error: VERR_PDM_NO_USB_PORTS).

none

I’m not sure about this error I think you might have missed any step. Read the article, and try once again. One thing I have to mention for you that you should exit VirtualBox while entering the code to the CMD (Step #5).

December 18, 2016

Ahtisham Shafi

Asalum alikum brother

I did everything by following the video but i get the following error when click on ‘Start’ : ” Failed to open a session for the virtual machine macOS Sierra. ”

Details of error: “VT-x is disabled in the BIOS for all CPU modes (VERR_VMX_MSR_ALL_VMX_DISABLED).

Turn off your Computer and Enter the BIOS Setup and then Enable Intel Virtual Technology (VT) then the problem will solve.

December 21, 2016

Roy

Hi, my computer is running a Intel(R) Celeron(R) 1017U @ 1.60GHz 1.60 GHz 4.00 GB (3.89 GB usable). Is it possible? I tried once installing it and all I got was a black screen. If it is not possible on VM are there any workarounds. If it IS possilbe to run this without an i7 then I did something wrong. Please is someone can reply. I would be highly grateful.

Watch this video carefully then go according to the video. You might have missed any step.

December 28, 2016

Diogo

Hi! I did everything acording to the video and after I start my virtual machine it gives me this error: “A critical error has occurred while running the virtual machine and the machine execution has stopped.” Have I made some mistake?

Oleh

Oleh

Oleh

—— * i7-6700 last gen, host win10x64, VirtualBox 5.1.12 —– And while trying another macOS (El Cap) I’ve managed to reach OS installation process, but I’ve got an error after 3-5 clicks with the message “hfs: unmount initiated on untitled on device disk1” and returning me to the first screen of installation process.

Dre Hill

For the VirtualBox, you don’t need a Unlocker because the options are already there.

January 11, 2017

Johar

THANKS MUKHTAR BHAI, Initially I stuck but I tried many times. The best thing I did is I updated my virtual box & extension pack, then removed old machines and repeated carefully all steps guided by you, religiously.

Hola ! now I am running mac os sierra. Only one problem is SLOW VOICE FROM SIRI

valery1707

Josenildo

Hi, Here functioning but what i do for adjuste resolution for 1280x768x32 or 1366x768x32 on Sierra OS. Here only show 1024x768x16. I have executed one clean install after load the VM downloaded here reinstall one clean copy and functioning all minus update resolution for display.

Mike

This worked for me running VirtualBox on a Debian Linux host following the steps almost 1:1…Just have to modify the commands a bit – don’t need to “cd” – vboxmanage is already in your PATH on Debian when you install VirtualBox via apt. Also, obviously remove the .exe extension from any of the other commands.

Screen resolution fix also worked, although I would love to know how to set custom resolutions (namely 1080p). I think it would require also modifying some configs in the guest OS. I tried to work it out from some other info I found online, but nothing has worked so far.

Greatly looking forward to the tutorial on getting iMessage to work, as I see mentioned above in a comment from Jan 7 2017!

Nik

Hey Guys, Just solved the reboot problem!!!!! If you made the mistake, to do the cmd thing while vb was opened, you need to reinstall the whole thing! That includes reunarchiving the image and reinstalling virtual box (with reboot)! That worked for me! I hope, I could help some of you! Maybe you could add this to a troubleshooting part at the end of the tutorial 😀 Thank you 😀

Jordan

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Ismail Yaakob

Hi bro, thanks for great article. Btw I have problem after click power on wmware as mac os x is not supported with binary translation. ‘To run mac you need host on which vmware supports intel vt-x or amd…’ Any idea bro since Im new for this method. Thanks.

Peter

It doesn’t works on my PC. I have intel chipset. The booting restarts again and again. I’ve tried run commands from text files, issue still there. Are you sure is it works? As i can see, there is a lot of similar problem. 🙁

February 22, 2017

Aekanshu

there is a error in my vm box that ” a critical error has occur while running the virtual machine and the machine execution has stopped”

Milind

Yeah this note is being told several time but the readers do not pay attention to it. It’s very important thing to install macOS Sierra on Virtualbox

March 3, 2017

Tom Lake

I followed the instructions exactly, including the code steps. but I get the error shown at the link.https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_51NGjsiBiXTVVsMmlqdFl3ZEk I have VirtualBox 5.1.14 running on Windows 10, Intel Core i7-7700K with 64GB RAM. I limited myself to setting up the vb exactly as shown in the photos and I created a batch file from the included code. There were no errors when I ran the batch file. I even named my Sierra vb the same as the example. Other OSes run fine in VB (Win 7, Win 8.1, Win Vista) on this PC so I know VirtualBox is installed correctly.

Anon

I’m having this error when clicking start on VirtualBox – Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Details – The virtual machine ‘macOS’ has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code -1073741819 (0xc0000005). More details may be available in ‘C:\Users\Owner\VirtualBox VMs\macOS\Logs\VBoxHardening.log’.

I have followed all the instructions, including the close the app before running cmd as an admin. However the only setting I cant follow is that I cant set my cpu to 2 which is the minimum, it’s stuck on 1.

Yeah, it the most of out macOS Sierra on VirtualBox because you can install the guest addition and fix all the issue. But you can fix issues like the sound on VMware because there you can install VMware tools and fix the most common problems including graphics, sound, etc.

Mr. S

I’ve followed all the instructions, and I made sure to exit VirtualBox before using the commands, but when I start the VM to start installation it only shows a black screen and nothing else, and I’m not sure why that is.

Asriel

I had the same issue others were having with the bootloop, but that was fixed with me actually following the instructions. Now I’m getting this, stuck at a Bash prompt with no idea what to do. Doing Exit takes me to a menu, no matter where I go from there it always ends up back at this screen.https://puu.sh/v4BgQ/7a67d3b47a.png

KytoSai

Allow USB from it’s setting then you can connect usb Make sure before connecting USB your mouse should be on macOS Sierra environment

April 4, 2017

MrDarkmark

I am having a problem. It says: A critical error occured while running the virtual machine and the machine execution has stopped. If you would like to know I am running and Intel i5-7200U 2.5GHz with Turbo Boost up to 3.1 GHz and NVIDIA GeForce 940MX with 2 gb decidated vram

I’ve closed all my VirtualBox instances (even in task manager) and runned the script/code for VBoxManage.exe and voilá!

My VM is now working!!!

Mukhtar Jafari, maybe it should be great to add this info to this article just in the paragraph when you describe the VBoxManage.exe code steps. I think it will prevent many flood in the comments, as long as it makes all the diference!

Ok dear. Right now I’m not in a good location and I don’t have access to laptop or desktop. I reply all the comments by mobile and as soon as I get in a secure place I will add it Thanks for informing

April 13, 2017

baas

Also – before executing the commands in step #5 – make sure no virtualbox processes are running with the Resource Monitor. I tried several times without luck, and when I used the resource monitor to verify that no vbox related processes where running and vbox related resources in use – it worked.

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neil

I’ve followed the guide and my virtual machine boots, but it runs very slowly. My specs are: I5 3570k 16gb ram 7850 gpu Is it because I’ve got no 3d acceleration of the desktop or is there another reason?

Votality

Has anyone got iCloud & iMessage login working with the sierra vmdk image provided by this site and these instructions?

If so please post some instructions…

I’ve tried with a working serial that shows fine in about this mac and the validates ok online.

April 16, 2017

Votality

Update iCloud works fine (account issue), however I’m assuming the SMBIOS settings must not be as required for iMessage to operate.. all the the guides I have seen assume your using clover and give you advice on the settings to set there.

I assume to have it work here you would need to set these same settings in the EFI of vbox..

JH P.

I used VBox 5.0.38 and I had to rename the vmdk file from macOS Sierra 10.12 by wikigain.vmdk to macos-sierra.vmdk. I don’t know why, but VBox did not recognize the file name. Other than that, it worked great. Thanks!

I get this (reboot loop) because of: getCPUIDInfo: this is an unknown CPU model 0x3c — power management may be incomplete or unsupported Results in a kernel PANIC en reboot with the same error. panic(cpu 1 caller xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx): DSMOS: SMC returned incorrect key. Virtualbox: 5.1.22r115126

“because you are running the commands (Step# 5) while the Oracle VM software is open”. I’ve closed all my VirtualBox instances (even in task manager) and runned the script/code for VBoxManage.exe and voilá! My VM is now working!!!

Frans

DSDDOS

I did exactly as described but when i start the VM i get this error:

Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Mac OS X.

The virtual machine ‘Mac OS X’ has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code -1073741819 (0xc0000005). More details may be available in ‘C:UsersAdminVirtualBox VMsMac OS XLogsVBoxHardening.log’.

Kartar Singh

i’m using it from past few days, Working Well but the problems which i’m facing are: 1.) when i download applications (like iMovies) it shows that your system configuration doesn’t met the requirements even when i change the video ram to 256MB 2.) actually it is a question when i start the project from Virtual box it starts in verbose mode is there is any process for normal start. rest of things are currently working fine. Thanks

Erc

Yeah to enhance it increase CPU and RAM but currently, it’s supported by the VirtualBox, and you can’t make the most out of it. Increase CPU and RAM may enhance the performance a little bit but not perfect. But this is not the same on VMware:

July 3, 2017

John

Hello, I have intel pentium G620 processor x64 bit processor and windows 10 64 bit and 8 GB of ram will it work ???

Federico

Bulcsu

It does not work for me. I have followed the instructions, and also quit VB during the CMD phase. I assume that the HD has to be the virtual disk provided (macOS Sierra… .vmdk file) . It is not entirely clear from the instructions. All I get is an UEFI interactive shell screen where I can hit ESC to skip startup.nsh. Did this process now 3 times very carefully following the instructions and ALWAYS the same result.

Set your video memory to 128 MB, and change the operating system version to OS X (64).

July 21, 2017

Fabio

Hello, I followed the instructions and have sierra 10.12 running (I have only 4 gb of ram and i could reserve only 2 for the virtual machine but it work fine the same). The problem is that the updates to 10.12.5 (also tried offline combo update to 10.12.5, 10.12.4 and 10.12.1). All the update reach the reboot phase but the machine stop to update at 17 min left or 10 min left (always 10 min left for update to 10.12.5). I don’t found a way to boot in safe mode inside virtual box nor to issue COMMAND+L or similar…any suggestion?

When you update to the latest version it downloads the 4 or 5 GB file. So during this update, your internet connection should not be lost.

July 17, 2017

Fabio

As I said, I tryed also with the offline combo updates! The internet connection seems not involved. anyway it is stable here. I also install OFFLINE updates from the commandline with sudo softwareupdate -iv “Mac OS….’ but it stuck at the install stage and when I reboot I always have the same os version. Any suggestion?

July 18, 2017

Fabio

Virtualbox Version 5.1.22 r115126 (Qt5.6.2) on Win 10. The virtual disk grow correctly. the quest os is ok under all aspect. I can sign in with my Apple ID. But no updates installation work

Sophie

To fix this error, you need to change the Mac Operating system version to OS X (64).

July 17, 2017

Sophie

I am still getting the Guru meditation screen with the critical error message. I follow all the steps.I close VB before setting the commands and I have restarted my computer but still not working. Any ideas?

Kem

Okay, I have a new one. I am running Ubuntu 16.04, I installed everything and all works great, done some work/installations/configurations on the VBox with the MacOS. Now I bought a new laptop, I copied the vmdk file from the old laptop to the new as well as the .vbox and all the contents of the “MacOS Sierra” folder under “Virtualbox VMs” including the saved snapshot of the VM. I can resume the saved snapshot and it opens well, I can save it again and open but if I shutdown the MacOS and try to start it, it fails. Got any pointers? I copied a windows OS and it works fine. What could be the problem and how should I fix it?

When for the first time you open it gives you an option to choose from. Did you moved the file or copied the file. Choose copied the file and after that, it should not ask you.

July 20, 2017

Kem

Actually it never asked me that. All it says is “A critical error has occurred while running the virtual machine, the machine execution has been stopped” then a long message about checking the logs. I have even executed all the steps above including closing the VirtualBox, running the commands, etc… but not luck. If you want I can send you the logs.

Kem

I just got what you meant by the Virtualbox code, I did edit it and changed the name to MacOS Sierra as the machine name in the configuration and ran the code while the Virtualbox is closed. The VT is enabled in the bios and the windows vbox is working fine. My main OS is linux.